Creators Kal Penn and Matt Murray also made sure to have diversity behind the camera
The new series, named after and set in New York City's Queens neighborhood, stars Penn as Garrett Modi, a former New York City councilman who goes on a quest of redemption teaching immigrants the lessons needed for them to pass the citizenship test.Matt Murraythat they developed a premise that worked. And from the start, representation on and off camera was necessary.
"Doing a show about immigration, you kind of have to, and we certainly didn't want to have like one specific story," Murray said."I feel like there's a narrative that immigration is one thing. It's people coming in and you get a stamp and they just get to live here.
In addition to the diverse cast, which you can meet below, the writers room on Sunnyside is staffed with immigrants or children of immigrants, save one staffer. That, obviously, was done by choice. "We want to make sure we get those stories right and make sure they're relatable. It was very cool and fun and easy to build a writers room that way," Murray said.A Dutch-Mauritanian actor, Samba Schutte grew up in Ethiopia until he was 18. He wrote for the video game Battlefield V and has performed on a number of games including Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Additionally, he appeared in the Netflix film The Tiger Hunter.
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